MyBrainShark allows users to create and upload PowerPoints, Documents, and Videos, then share or embed with others! MyBrainShark is frequently used in conjunction with the document camera and Handbrake. Teachers can record lessons/videos with their document camera, convert them in Handbrake, and take them into MyBrainShark in order to share with parents and students. For more information about this process, visit our Document Camera Video Capture Wiki. For assistance with this process, please contact your Technology Integration Coach.
2. Click Sign Up For Free in the upper right hand corner to create a new account. If you already have an account, click Login.
3. When you are ready to upload new content, click Upload Content in the blue bar across the top or click the green Upload Content button on the right hand side.
4. Click the tab to choose what you would like to do: Add Voice to PowerPoint, Narrate a Document, Upload a Video, Make a Photo Album, or Produce a Podcast.
5. After clicking the tab to choose what you would like to do, click the Upload button.
6. Find, select, and choose open for the work to be uploaded.
7. The work with automatically being uploading and converting. (This process may take a few minutes. If a video is being uploaded, it may be necessary to use a program such as Handbrake to convert the video to an mp4 prior to using MyBrainShark.)
8. The following message will appear when your work has been uploaded and converted, "Your file has been converted."
9. Select Next.
10. You're almost done! You can add audio to your work by microphone or phone. Or you can choose Skip Adding Audio.
11. In order to share this content with others, you must click "Make It Active" under the What Can I Do Now? heading.
(After clicking Make It Active, this link will change to Make It Inactive.)
12. Work can be embedded into a website, viewed with a link, or shared via email.
MyBrainShark allows users to create and upload PowerPoints, Documents, and Videos, then share or embed with others! MyBrainShark is frequently used in conjunction with the document camera and Handbrake. Teachers can record lessons/videos with their document camera, convert them in Handbrake, and take them into MyBrainShark in order to share with parents and students. For more information about this process, visit our Document Camera Video Capture Wiki. For assistance with this process, please contact your Technology Integration Coach.
9. Select Next.
(After clicking Make It Active, this link will change to Make It Inactive.)